we have a shortlist for dd6 (dc10) opinions please

dd6 due in early July we have a short list i'll list them in order of preference

MirandaHermionewe both love these 2

however ,we have others on our longer shortlist just in case she doesn't suit either of these .they are

Cecilia i love this dh likes it but doesn't love it and dd5's mn is CecilyClarissa we both like this a lot but with the death of clarissa d-w will everyone just think 2 fat ladies .

then we have the wild cards which we both love but are not 100% certain about Winifred we both love this .we love it's meaning but are surname begins with W and ends in D. Is it too clunky . we're not sure it fits with her sisters' namesMerewen we both love it's meaning and it's sound but is it too out there and is the fact it rhymes with heroin/heroine an issue .Priscilla is the nn prissy a deal breaker?

frigg i think it's lovely especially it's nn potential and meaning, i think you may have inadvertently drawn my attention to it . i am a huge fan of the british baby names blog and i think you may have requested Merewen as name of the week i now have to persuade my dh that it's not to out there .

i think we have narrowed it down to Hermione or Merewen . i worry that ahve 4 daughters with names ending in a may be a bit too samey . also that Miranda may be about to have a maassive spike in popularity due to Miranda hart .

i really like hermione it fells strong yet gentle . i know there is the harry potter connection but i think that is much less than it would have been 10 years ago . hermione grainger is not a bad role model for a little girl anyway.it is also the only name dh has come up with indepently .it really surprised me because any name related to a tv / film character he normally vetoes

Miranda i like alot it's meaning is brilliant but it fee ls maybe slightly haughty .i'm not sure why it is so low in the popularity rankings .i worry the fame of miranda hart will make it increase in popularity and make it date quickly .

merewen i also really like it's meaning and it's nn potential . really pleased with the positive responses to it .We have a tudor so not sure why i'm worried about merewen being to out there

Cecilia i love the name and the nns celia or cece but i dislike it's meaning although i have heard it also interpreted it as meaning hidden /obscure or posibbly from the welsh for sixth but i think that link is tenuous .My dh is less keen on it because i have a light lisp and he worries it's to sibilant

Congratulations! I LOVE Merewen, it sounds beautiful. Sorry, really dislike Priscilla. I think the Cecilia/Cecily thing is similar, but it doesn't matter. The name is beautiful and elegant imo. Would Celia work if you were more concerned about the Cecily similarity?

All your chosen four are lovely, but I prefer Merewen or Cecilia. Just in case it matters, Merewen is not Scottish, as an earlier OP suggested, but early English. See [http://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2013/05/merewen.html]] As I'm sure you know, Cecilia is the patron saint of music, with some smashing compositions in her honour. But both are very pretty. Many congratulations on so many DCs.

sorry in my original post should have been gratefully receive not greatly . baby brain strikes again i think for the reasons everyone has said we are highly unlikely to use winifred is highly unlikely .i'm not sure what she'd look like if she pops out and we go oh she looks just like a winifred .

i like clarissa but dh has mentioned the double ss sound as being to hissy and the eponymous heroine in the samuel richardson has a very tragic life which although not making it a definite no makes me rate it less highly than i otherwise would

priscilla we had discounted because of it's potential nns so i think it will remain discounted

so it looks like our shortlist is hermionemirandaceciliamerewen

our older dcs have 2 mns each which means we are really running out of name optionsolder dcs' namesarearabellabethanylydiatabithagabrielphoebeblakeleightontudor

Thinking about your other ideas - Hermione I quite like this but it is a bit clunky. Cecilia is not as nice as Cecily and you've already decided to use that as a mn rather than a first name so it can't be one of your all time faves. Clarissa is a bit uptight sounding I think but if you wanted to use it I wouldn't worry about the Clarissa D-W association, sad fact but true by the time DD6 arrives in July everyone will have forgotten who she was. I really don't like Winifred, it sounds ugly. Merewen sounds pretty, I also like Meren - have you thought of that? Priscilla would be a no for me, it just sounds prissy and any name that shortens to an insult isn't a great idea imo.

10 children must be amazing, we've stopped at 3 but it doesn't stop me longing for more.......

Miranda is nice but out of all those mentioned, I like Cecilia the best. We have a similar issue with a name that we both love being a variant of our ds middle name. I kind of like to think that they link the siblings together though.

It must be a joy naming 10 children though! I could probably name 15 at this point and am getting sad that will have to come down to just 2-3 names out of all the lovely possibilities.